Newsweek calls new Diebold security disaster "fast track to fraud" !

[Amaryllis]

DIEBOLD DISASTER: NEWSWEEK JUMPS IN, COVERS LATEST E-VOTING DEBACLE!
Company Spokesman/Dead-Ender David Bear Running Out of Spin

"If Diebold had set out to build a system as insecure as they possibly could, this would be it," says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer-science professor and elections-security expert.

Things aren't looking good for our friends at Diebold. Even NEWSWEEK is finally paying attention as Steven Levy files a report for this week's issue on the story we broke two weeks ago...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002854.htm

Link to Newsweek story:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12888600/site/newsweek/
Diebold Election Systems spokesperson David Bear says Hursti's findings do not represent a fatal vulnerability in Diebold technology, but simply note the presence of a feature that allows access to authorized technicians to periodically update the software. If it so happens that someone not supposed to use the machine—or an election official who wants to put his or her thumb on the scale of democracy—takes advantage of this fast track to fraud, that's not Diebold's problem. " throwing out a 'what if' that's premised on a basis of an evil, nefarious person breaking the law," says Bear.

Of course, we all know that there are NO evil, nefarious people out there who would be motivated to take advantage of this "fast track to fraud."
After all, WHO could possibly be motivated to do such a thing?

[Wilms]

1. K&R n/t

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. "...not Diebold's problem."

Amazing that their official spokesperson would make such a statement. He's essentially saying they have no responsibility to ensure a secure elections process even though virtually the whole process is contracted out to them. Absolutely amazing.

[bleever]

3. "...throwing out a 'what if' that's premised on a basis of an evil,

nefarious person breaking the law," says Bear.


I mean, that's a crazy 'what if'. Where could we even find such people?


:rofl:



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[OneBlueSky]

4. the only thing that can solve this e-voting problem is . . .

for Congress to receive so many letters, calls, e'mails, telegrams, and whatever that they have to enact legislation prohibiting DREs in federal elections . . . trying to do it state by state and county by county will take forever, and we have two critical elections coming up (2006 and 2008) . . .